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Canto 7

Prabhupāda Pranāti

 

 

Chapter 2: Hiranyakas'ipu, the King of the Demons, on Bereavement

(1) S'rī Nārada said: 'After his brother [Hiranyāksha], as said, was killed by the Lord in the form of a boar [see 3.18-19], Hiranyakas'ipu got very sad and angry, oh King. (2) Enraged biting his lips over this, he with his eyes fuming of anger stared into the grey sky and then spoke. (3) He, with his terrible teeth and fierce look, ghastly to behold, raised his trident in an assembly of Dānavas and said with a grimace the following: (4-5) 'Oh Dānavas and Daityas, Dvimūrdha ['the two-headed one'], Tryaksha ['the three-eyed one'] S'ambara and S'atabāhu ['the hundred-armed one']; oh Hayagrīva ['the horsehead'], Namuci, Pāka, Ilvala and Vipracitti! Puloma, S'akuna and all others, listen to what I have to tell you and may you all quickly thereafter act to it, without delay. (6) With those insignificant enemies, the theists who are of worship, conspiring behind his back, my so very dear brother and well-wisher was killed by Hari who was supposed to treat us all equally. (7-8) He [not being that equal] has forsaken His love for us and is now behaving abominably in māyā, just like a wild beast. As unsteady as a child, He changes from one form into another according to the desire of His worshiping devotees. With my trident I will cut Him in His neck and make Him swim in His blood. By satisfying him [Hiranyāksha,] who was so fond of drinking it, I thus can find my peace. (9) When He, [Vishnu] that most deceitful enemy of all, is finished, the same will happen to those guys of God whose life belongs to Vishnu, just like it is with the drying up of the branches and leaves of a tree that is cut by its roots. (10) All of you meanwhile go to that world so neatly kept in order by the priests and politicians and see to the destruction of all those repenting and sacrificing bookworms who are of vow and charity. (11) Lord Vishnu roots in their sacrificial activities. He is that person full of religious principles who, exhaustingly being worshiped by the twice-born souls, is the man of dharma, He who is the shelter of these gods and sages, forefathers and all the rest. (12) Wherever the twice-born souls keep their cows, study their Vedas and are busy with their varnās'rama ado, you set their towns afire and cut their trees all down.'

(13) Proving him their respects, they took the instructions of their master on their heads and terrorized, as experts in destruction, all the people. (14) The cities and villages, pasturing grounds, orchards and gardens, fields, forests, hermitages and mines, farms, mountain places, cowherd camps and also the capitals, they all burned down. (15) Some of them set the dwellings ablaze with firebrands and others demolished with picks the bridges, surrounding walls and the city gates while another group took up axes to destroy the source of livelihood by cutting down the fruit trees. (16) When the people thus time and again were disturbed by the followers of the king of the Daityas, the God-fearing souls gave up their heavenly positions and wandered all over the earth in order not to be visible to the demons. (17) Hiranyakas'ipu, very distressed about the loss of his brother, performed the obsequies and pacified his nephews. (18-19) S'akuni, S'ambara, Dhrishthi, Bhūtasantāpana, Vrika, Kālanābha, Mahānābha, Haris'mas'ru and Utkaca, as also their mother Rushābhānu and Diti, his own mother, he, as a well adapted person, addressed with the sweetest words saying this, oh ruler of man.

(20) Hiranyakas'ipu said: 'Oh mother, oh mother; oh sister in law and nephews, you should not lament over our hero who, facing the enemy, chose for the glory of a hero's death. (21) Just like travelers, who amassing at a road house thereafter resume their course, oh sweet mother, the ways of living beings, who by providence in this world were brought together in one place [in a family, a country or religion], part again according to each his karma. (22) The eternal inexhaustible soul, free from the tinge of matter, is capable of going anywhere. Knowing all and being transcendental, that soul takes up the self of a body that, under the influence of the material world, demonstrates various qualities [see B.G. 13: 22]. (23) Just as trees being reflected in water can appear to be moving, one can also, by moving one's head [one's 'eyes'], have the illusion that the world is moving around. (24) The unchangeable living being the same way is confused by the mind it has with the qualities of matter, oh mother of mine, which leads to it that he, despite his formlessness, starts to believe in a physical form. (25-26) This soul confounded about his formless existence, with the body in mind thus knows loved ones and enemies, allies and strangers in his karma with the material affair. Accepting that he is born and will die, he laments in different ways and has all kinds of worries, being uncertain about what the scriptures say and being forgetful about proper discrimination. (27) In this context one often recites an ancient story about Yamarāja in discussion with the friends of someone who died. Listen closely. (28) Once in Us'īnara there was a famous king known as Suyajńa, who was killed by his enemies during a war. His kinsmen sat around him. (29-31) With his jeweled armor scattered here and there and his ornaments and garlands fallen down, he was lying there in his blood, pierced by an arrow through his heart. With his hair loose and his eyes obscured, he had his lips bitten in anger, his lotus face covered by dust and his arms and weapons cut off lying on the battlefield. When the queens ascertained that the master of Us'īnara thus had been treated by providence, they had their eyes full of tears and pounded their breast constantly with their hands while they, fallen down at his feet, repeatedly cried: 'oh husband!' (32) Wailing loudly about their beloved husband they moistened his lotus feet with their tears that were red because of the kunkum of their breasts. With their ornaments and hair loosened, they for everyone heart-rending lamented, sobbing pitiably:

(33) 'Alas by merciless providence, oh Lord of us, you, oh beloved one, have been taken beyond the range of our sight. You used to provide the livelihood of the state and the inhabitants of Us'īnara, but now that you have departed you are the cause of an increasing lamentation. (34) You were such a grateful husband to us, oh King, how can we, all following you, live without you? You, who are our best friend, please tell us whereto those who served your lotus feet, have to follow you, now you left us.' (35) The queens thus lamenting, had taken the dead husband on their lap, not wishing the corpse to be taken away. Meanwhile the sun was setting in the west. (36) Hearing the kith and kin of the ruler crying that loudly, Yamarāja personally appeared in the form of a boy and spoke to them.

(37) S'rī Yamarāja said: 'Ah, how can you people older than me who saw the law of nature ruling every day of your lives, be this bewildered? You yourselves will return to the same nature this man returned to. Yet you weep uselessly  [compare B.G. 2: 28]! (38) Look how lucky we are, for we, abandoned by our father and mother, weak as we are, have not been eaten by the wolves! So why worry knowing that He who protected us in the womb, will also protect us later on? (39) Oh, poor women, the Supreme Controller creates, by the exercise of His will, all of this without ever changing Himself and it is He who, next to that, also maintains and destroys. One says that all beings moving and not moving are involved in the game of the Lord, who is always fully entitled to maintain something or someone, or put an end to it all. (40) Something lost in the street can, protected by destiny, be preserved, while something kept at home, can be fated to be lost. Despite being unprotected, one, under His protection, may remain alive, whether one is at home or in the forest, but this one here, being struck down, well protected as he was, did not survive. (41) Living beings have their own type of birth according to their karma and also all disappear in due course of time because of [this finite] karma. But this does not apply to the soul, despite the fact that he, being situated within this material world, in various forms is bound to her different basic qualities. The soul is of a completely different nature [see also B.G. 2: 20]. (42) This body of the person, which with fire, water and earth out of ignorance was born, undergoes changes and is vanquished again, is just as separate from the soul as the material of a house is separate from its indweller. (43) The fire in wood can be observed separately, just as the air within the body and the [time-effect of the] all pervading ether that does not mix with anything. The same way the living entity can be separately considered as transcendental to its material encasement of involvement with the modes. (44) [The body of] this man [called] Suyajńa is there right in front of you and you, oh foolish people, now cry for him. But he who heard and spoke with that body in this world, you have never seen! (45) The great ruler of the body, the life air, is, despite residing within this body, not the listener, nor the speaker. The soul within this body with all its senses is the master different from its life air. (46) That what expands and manifests, this might, this powerful soul, obtains and forsakes high and low-class bodies, characterized by the five elements, the senses and a mind. In that engagement he [this power of the self in the form of the so-called linga, the subtle body] differs from the form he assumes by dint of his moral quality [see also 4.29]. (47) One is bound to karma for as long as one is connected to the subtle body [consisting of mind, intelligence and false ego]. From that karmic bondage there is the reversal [from being controlled by the spirit soul to being controlled by the body] and the misery following that illusory unification [B.G. 8: 6]. (48) Just like everything suggested by the senses, with what one sees and says, is false in a daydream and offers no firm ground, it is equally useless to cling to the dream of [the happiness and distress derived from] the material qualities of nature. (49) That is why those who understand that, do not complain about what is permanent and transient in this world. They otherwise, evidently, could not do anything about the life habits of those who do complain [see also B.G. 2: 11]. (50) Some hunter who was assigned the task to decimate the number of birds in the forest, spread a net and luring the birds here and there with food, thus caught them. (51) When he saw a pair of kulinga birds foraging in the forest, the hunter quickly managed to lure the female bird of the two. (52) Oh queens, the male seeing how the female bird, in the grip of time, was caught in the ropes of the net, very upset did not know what to do next so that the poor thing began to wail emotionally about its mate: (53) 'Alas how cruel is the mighty Lord for my wife who was so kind to me! What can I do for the poor one crying for me, her poor [husband]? (54) Let the Lord also take my life. What is the use of living my single body half? What kind of miserable existence is it to suffer that pain for a lifetime? (55) How unfortunate are my babies waiting for their mother in their nest. How can I, without the mother, maintain the young that cannot fly yet?' (56) While the bird thus with wet eyes most sad at a distance lamented over the loss of his beloved, the bird-catcher, as a messenger of time, managed to sneak up on him and take his life by piercing him with an arrow.

(57) And so it is with you, oh ignorant ladies. You do not see the finality of your existence! Lamenting over your husband will not bring him back, not even in a hundred years.'

(58) S'rī Hiranyakas'ipu said: 'The boy thus having spoken, astounded the hearts of all the relatives. They understood that everything material was just a temporary, imperfect appearance [see also B.G. 2: 18]. (59) After Yamarāja in this form had given instruction he disappeared. Thereupon the relatives of King Suyajńa performed the duties for the funeral. (60) Therefore do not lament about yourself or anyone else. In this material world one only lacking in knowledge is obsessed with the meaning of this 'mine' and thine' of one's self-interest and the interest of others. For who is that actually, that soul of you and of the others?'

(61) S'rī Nārada said: 'Diti and her daughter-in-law [Rushābhānu,] hearing the speech of the king of the Daityas promptly gave up their grief over their son and husband and submitted their minds to the true knowledge of life.'

 

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Text 1

S'rī Nārada said: 'After the brother [Hiranyāksha] as said was killed by the Lord in the form of a boar [see 3.18-19], Hiranyakas'ipu got very sad and angry, oh King. 
S'rī Nārada said: 'When the brother [Hiranyāksa] thus was killed by the Lord in the form of a boar [see 3.18-19] was Hiranyakas'ipu very afflicted with anger and grief o King. (Vedabase)

 

Text 2

Enraged biting his lips over this, he with his eyes fuming of anger stared into the grey sky and then spoke.

Enraged biting his lips on this, stared he into the sky that smoked with the blazing fury of his eyes and spoke he. (Vedabase)

 

Text 3

He, with his terrible teeth and fierce look, ghastly to behold, raised his trident in an assembly of Dānavas and said with a grimace the following:

With his terrible teeth and fierce look ghastly to behold, raised he, in an assembly of the Dānavas, his trident with a frown on his face saying the following. (Vedabase)

 

Text 4-5

'Oh Dānavas and Daityas, Dvimūrdha ['the two-headed one'], Tryaksha ['the three-eyed one'] S'ambara and S'atabāhu ['the hundred-armed one']; oh Hayagrīva ['the horsehead'], Namuci, Pāka, Ilvala and Vipracitti! Puloma, S'akuna and all others, listen to what I have to tell you and may you all quickly thereafter act to it, without delay.

'O Dānavas and Daityas, Dvimūrdha ['the two headed one'], Tryaksha ['the three-eyed one'] S'ambara and S'atabāhu ['the hundred-armed one']; Hayagrīva ['the horsehead'], Namuci, Pāka, Ilvala and Vipracitti! Pulomā, S'akuna and all others, listen to the words I have to tell you and may you thereafter all quickly, without delay, act to them. (Vedabase)

 

Text 6

With those insignificant enemies, the theists who are of worship, conspiring behind his back, my so very dear brother and well-wisher was killed by Hari who was supposed to treat us all equally.

My so very dear brother and well-wisher was with those powerless enemies, the godly who conspiring behind his back were of worship, killed by Hari who was supposed to treat us all equal. (Vedabase)

 

Text 7-8

He [not being that equal] has forsaken His love for us and is now behaving abominably in māyā, just like a wild beast. As unsteady as a child, He changes from one form into another according to the desire of His worshiping devotees. With my trident I will cut Him in His neck and make Him swim in His blood. By satisfying him [Hiranyāksha,] who was so fond of drinking it, I thus can find my peace.

He has forsaken His own love for us and is now, abominable in māyā, behaving like a wild beast in His as a child jumping from this to that form to the like of His worshiping devotees. I will with my trident cut His neck and make Him swim in blood for the sake of indeed [Hiranyāksha,] he who was so fond of drinking it. Thus I'll please my brother and find my own peace. (Vedabase)

 

Text 9

When He, [Vishnu] that most deceitful enemy of all, is finished, the same will happen to those guys of God whose life belongs to Vishnu, just like it is with the drying up of the branches and leaves of a tree that is cut by its roots.

When He, that most deceitful enemy of all is finished will, like with the drying up of the branches and leaves of a tree that is cut by its roots, the same happen to those guys of God whose life belongs to Vishnu. (Vedabase)

 

Text 10

All of you meanwhile go to that world so neatly kept in order by the priests and politicians and see to the destruction of all those repenting and sacrificing bookworms who are of vow and charity.

Meanwhile all of you go to that world so neatly kept by the rulers of Brahmā and see to the destruction of all those repenting and sacrificing bookworms who according to vows donate in charity. (Vedabase)

 

Text 11

Lord Vishnu roots in their sacrificial activities. He is that person full of religious principles who, exhaustingly being worshiped by the twice-born souls, is the man of dharma, he who is the shelter of these gods and sages, forefathers and all the rest.

Vishnu by the twice born exhaustingly worshiped, is sacrifice personified, the Supreme Person of the full of dharma; He is the one shelter of the religion of them gods and sages, forefathers and all the others. (Vedabase)

 

Text 12

Wherever the twice-born souls keep their cows, study their Vedas and are busy with their varnās'rama ado, you set their towns afire and cut their trees all down.'

Wherever the twice-born keep their cows, study their Vedas and are busy with their varnās'rama ado, set all those towns afire or cut down all the trees of the place.' (Vedabase)

 

Text 13

Proving him their respects, they took the instructions of their master on their heads and terrorized, as experts in destruction, all the people. 

Proving him their respects took they the instructions of their master on their heads and terrorized they, the experts in destruction, all the people. (Vedabase)

 

Text 14

The cities and villages, pasturing grounds, orchards and gardens, fields, forests, hermitages and mines, farms, mountain places, cowherd camps and also the capitals, they all burned down. 

The cities and villages, pasturing grounds, orchards and gardens, fields, forests, hermitages and mines, farms and mountain places, cowherd camps and the capitals as well, they all burned down. (Vedabase)

 

Text 15

Some of them set the dwellings ablaze with firebrands and others demolished with picks the bridges, surrounding walls and the city gates while another group took up axes to destroy the source of livelihood by cutting down the fruit trees. 

While others with firebrands set the dwellings ablaze, demolished some of them with picks the bridges, surrounding walls and the city gates and took some others axes to destroy the source of livelihood by cutting down the fruit trees. (Vedabase)

 

Text 16

When the people thus time and again were disturbed by the followers of the king of the Daityas, the God-fearing souls gave up their heavenly positions and wandered all over the earth in order not to be visible to the demons.

When time and again the people were thus disturbed by the followers of the king of the Daityas, gave the godly their positions up and wandered they, not seen by the demons, all over the earth. (Vedabase)
 
Text 17

Hiranyakas'ipu, very distressed about the loss of his brother, performed the obsequies and pacified his nephews. 

Hiranyakas'ipu, very distressed about the loss of his brother performed the obsequies and pacified his nephews. (Vedabase)

 

Text 18-19

S'akuni, S'ambara, Dhrishthi, Bhūtasantāpana, Vrika, Kālanābha, Mahānābha, Haris'mas'ru and Utkaca, as also their mother Rushābhānu and Diti, his own mother, he, as a well adapted person, addressed with the sweetest words saying this, oh ruler of man.

S'akuni, S'ambara, Dhrishthi, Bhūtasantāpana, Vrika, Kālanābha, Mahānābha, Haris'mas'ru and Utkaca as also their mother Rushābhānu and Diti, his own mother, he addressed as a well adapted person in sweet words saying this, o ruler of man. (Vedabase)

 

Text 20

Hiranyakas'ipu said: 'Oh mother, oh mother; oh sister in law and nephews, you should not lament over our hero who, facing the enemy, chose for the glory of a hero's death.

Hiranyakas'ipu said: 'O mother, mother, o sister in law, o nephews, you do not deserve this lamentation about our hero of enlightenment who in front of the enemy desired the most glorious death. (Vedabase)

 

Text 21

Just like travelers, who amassing at a road house thereafter resume their course, oh sweet mother, the ways of living beings, who by providence in this world were brought together in one place [in a family, a country or religion], part again according to each his karma.

Of all beings in this world living together like travelers amassing about a drinking place, o my sweet mother, are by divine ordinance the ones that were brought together in one place led apart according their own karma. (Vedabase)


Text 22

The eternal inexhaustible soul, free from the tinge of matter, is capable of going anywhere. Knowing all and being transcendental, that soul takes up the self of a body that, under the influence of the material world, demonstrates various qualities [see B.G. 13: 22].

The eternal inexhaustible soul is, free from the tinge of matter, capable of going anywhere; knowing all and transcendent takes that soul up the self of a body that under the influence of the material world gives him various qualities [see B.G. 13: 22]. (Vedabase)

 

Text 23

Just as trees being reflected in water can appear to be moving, one can also, by moving one's head [one's 'eyes'], have the illusion that the world is moving around.

Just as reflected in water the trees are moving, seems it also in case of an optical illusion to be so that [with heat e.g.] the ground moves. (Vedabase)


Text 24

The unchangeable living being the same way is confused by the mind it has with the qualities of matter, oh mother of mine, which leads to it that he, despite his formlessness, starts to believe in a physical form.

Likewise does the adhering mind, that is confused of the modes of matter, the same way agitate the changeless living entity, o my mother, making the entity despite of being formless believe that it belongs to that bodily form. (Vedabase)


Text 25-26

This soul confounded about his formless existence, with the body in mind thus knows loved ones and enemies, allies and strangers in his karma with the material affair. Accepting that he is born and will die, he laments in different ways and has all kinds of worries, being uncertain about what the scriptures say and being forgetful about proper discrimination.

This soul, confounded indeed with his formless existence, falls in love with the body and has beloved ones and enemies, allies and strangers in his karma about the material affair. Faced with births and dying, lamenting different ways and lacking in discrimination as to what the scriptures say, is he full of anxiety and forgetful about the right discrimination. (Vedabase)

 

Text 27

In this context one often recites an ancient story about Yamarāja in discussion with the friends of someone who died. Listen closely.

Concerning this one often recites an ancient story about Yamarāja in discussion with the friends of a deceased one. Listen closely. (Vedabase)

 

Text 28

Once in Us'īnara there was a famous king known as Suyajńa, who was killed by his enemies during a war. His kinsmen sat around him.

Once there was a king in Us'īnara known as Suyajńa who was killed by his enemies in a war. His kinsmen sat around him. (Vedabase)

 

Text 29-31

With his jeweled armor scattered here and there and his ornaments and garlands fallen down, he was lying there in his blood, pierced by an arrow through his heart. With his hair loose and his eyes obscured, he had his lips bitten in anger, his lotus face covered by dust and his arms and weapons cut off lying on the battlefield. When the queens ascertained that the master of Us'īnara thus had been treated by providence, they had their eyes full of tears and pounded their breast constantly with their hands while they, fallen down at his feet, repeatedly cried: 'oh husband!'

With his jeweled armor scattered here and there and his ornaments and garlands fallen down, lay he there in his blood pierced by the arrows through his heart. With his hair loose and his eyes obscured, had he of anger bitten lips, was his lotus face covered with dust and lay his arms and weapons cut off on the battlefield. When the queens ascertained that the master of Us'īnara thus hacked up by providence had been killed, were they in tears and pounded they their breast constantly with their hands, crying over and over again 'O, husband', falling down at his feet. (Vedabase)

  

Text 32

Wailing loudly about their beloved husband they moistened his lotus feet with their tears that were red because of the kunkum of their breasts. With their ornaments and hair loosened, they for everyone heart-rending lamented, sobbing pitiably:

Wailing out aloud for their beloved husband moistened they the lotus feet with the tears red of the kunkum of their breasts and with their ornaments and hair loosened lamented they heart-rending, sobbing pitiably: (Vedabase)

 

Text 33

'Alas by merciless providence, oh Lord of us, you, oh beloved one, have been taken beyond the range of our sight. You used to provide the livelihood of the state and the inhabitants of Us'īnara, but now that you have departed you are the cause of an increasing lamentation.

'Alas by the merciless providence o Lord of us, have you, o beloved one, been taken away beyond the range of our sight; the state and the inhabitants of Us'īnara you formerly provided their livelihood, but now that you're finished are you the cause of an increase in their lamentation. (Vedabase)

 

Text 34

You were such a grateful husband to us, oh King, how can we, all following you, live without you? You, who are our best friend, please tell us whereto those who served your lotus feet, have to follow you, now you left us.'

You were such a grateful husband to us o King, how can we and your retinue live without you; you who art our best friend, tell us where those, who were of service at your lotus feet, have to follow you now you've left us.' (Vedabase)

 

Text 35

The queens thus lamenting, had taken the dead husband on their lap, not wishing the corpse to be taken away. Meanwhile the sun was setting in the west.

The queens thus lamenting had taken the dead husband on their lap, not wishing the corpse to be buried. In the meantime was the sun setting in the west. (Vedabase)

 

Text 36

Hearing the kith and kin of the ruler crying that loudly, Yamarāja personally appeared in the form of a boy and spoke to them.

Hearing the kith and kin of the ruler lamenting so loudly came Yamarāja in person in the form of a boy to them and spoke he. (Vedabase)

 

Text 37

S'rī Yamarāja said: 'Ah, how can you people older than me who saw the law of nature ruling every day of your lives, be this bewildered? You yourselves will return to the same nature this man returned to. Yet you weep uselessly [compare B.G. 2: 28]!

S'rī Yamarāja said: 'How regretful to see this bewilderment of these elderly people. Don't they see the law of nature ruling every day? To the same nature as to where this man returned will they themselves return, nevertheless they meaninglessly weep! [compare B.G. 2: 28]. (Vedabase)

 

Text 38

Look how lucky we are,  for we, abandoned by our father and mother, weak as we are, have not been eaten by the wolves! So why worry knowing that He who protected us in the womb, will also protect us later on?

We, alas, think that, because we at present are without the protection of our parents, we thus, weak as we are, don't have to worry that we'd be eaten by the predators, supposing that He who has protected us in the womb would also protect us thereafter. (Vedabase)

 

Text 39

Oh, poor women, the Supreme Controller creates, by the exercise of His will, all of this without ever changing Himself and it is He who, next to that, also maintains and destroys. One says that all beings moving and not moving are involved in the game of the Lord, who is always fully entitled to maintain something or someone, or put an end to it all.

O poor women, the Supreme Controller by His own will creates all of this, while He Himself remains the same, and it is Him who no doubt also maintains and destroys; all that moves and does not move, is, so one says, the plaything of the Lord who at all times is able to give protection or to annihilate. (Vedabase)

 

Text 40

Something lost in the street can, protected by destiny, be preserved, while something kept at home, can be fated to be lost. Despite being unprotected, one, under His protection, may remain alive, whether one is at home or in the forest, but this one here, being struck down, well protected as he was, did not survive.

Something lost in the street can, protected by destiny, be preserved despite of the fact that one stays home, or just the same, God willing, be lost; despite of being unprotected can one under His protection remain alive whether one is at home or in the forest, but this one struck down did, well protected, not survive. (Vedabase)

 

Text 41

Living beings have their own type of birth according to their karma and also all disappear in due course of time because of [this finite] karma. But this does not apply to the soul, despite the fact that he, being situated within this material world, in various forms is bound to her different basic qualities. The soul is of a completely different nature [see also B.G. 2: 20].

All that are embodied have their own type of birth according their karma and disappear also in due course of time therefrom; but all this does not apply to the soul, even though he, situated within this material world, in various forms is bound to her different modes. (Vedabase)

 

Text 42

This body of the person, which with fire, water and earth out of ignorance was born, undergoes changes and is vanquished again, is just as separate from the soul as the material of a house is separate from its indweller.

This body of the person born of ignorance is just as separate from him as the material of a house is separate from its indweller; the same way is man separate from the body in which he with water, earth and fire took birth, and which, transforming in time, is vanquished again. (Vedabase)

 

Text 43

The fire in wood can be observed separately, just as the air within the body and the [time-effect of the] all pervading ether that does not mix with anything. The same way the living entity can be separately considered as transcendental to its material encasement of involvement with the modes.

Just as fire in wood is observed separately, just as the air within the body has its separate position, just as the all pervading ether stays with itself, so too stands the living entity apart from its material encasement with its modes. (Vedabase)

 

Text 44

[The body of] this man [called] Suyajńa is there right in front of you and you, oh foolish people, now cry for him. But he who heard and spoke with that body in this world, you have never seen!

 [The body of] this one [called] Suyajńa is there right before you and you, o foolish people, now cry for him, but he who heard and spoke with it in this world, could never be seen by you! (Vedabase)

 

Text 45

The great ruler of the body, the life air, is, despite residing within this body, not the listener, nor the speaker. The soul within this body with all its senses is the master different from its life air.

Although residing within this body is the great ruler of the body, the life air, not the listener, nor the speaker; the soul stands apart from him, the life air, that is locked up within the body with all its sense organs. (Vedabase)

 

Text 46

That what expands and manifests, this might, this powerful soul, obtains and forsakes high and low-class bodies, characterized by the five elements, the senses and a mind. In that engagement he [this power of the self in the form of the so-called linga, the subtle body] differs from the form he assumes by dint of his moral quality [see also 4.29].

The soul in control achieves and gives up again high and low-class bodies that are characterized by the five elements, the senses and the mind, and in doing so differs he [as the so-called linga, the subtle body] by dint of his own spiritual potency indeed from that what he assumes [see also 4.29]. (Vedabase)

 

Text 47

One is bound to karma for as long as one is connected to the subtle body [consisting of mind, intelligence and false ego]. From that karmic bondage there is the reversal [from being controlled by the spirit soul to being controlled by the body] and the misery following that illusory unification [B.G 8: 6].

As long as one is of fruitive activity is one covered by the subtle body [consisting of mind, intelligence and false ego]; from that bondage is there the reversal [of the control from the soul to the one by the body] and the misery which follows the being identified with the illusory of matter [B.G. 8: 6]. (Vedabase)

 

Text 48

Just like everything suggested by the senses, with what one sees and says, is false in a daydream and offers no firm ground, it is equally useless to cling to the dream of [the happiness and distress derived from] the material qualities of nature.

Just like with the seeing and talking in a daydream is it useless to cling to the factual of the modes of nature: everything that the senses produce in a dream is false. (Vedabase)


Text 49

That is why those who understand that, do not complain about what is permanent and transient in this world. They otherwise, evidently, could not do anything about the life habits of those who do complain [see also B.G. 2: 11].

It is for this reason that having the eternal as well as the temporal in this world is something that is not lamented by those who are of knowledge, otherwise, as you'll understand, wouldn't it be possible to deal with those who do like to sob over things [see also B.G. 2: 11]. (Vedabase)


Text 50

Some hunter who was assigned the task to decimate the number of birds in the forest, spread a net and luring the birds here and there with food, thus caught them.

Some hunter in the forest who was directed to decimate the number of birds, spread a net and luring with food here and there he captured them. (Vedabase)

 

Text 51

When he saw a pair of kulinga birds foraging in the forest, the hunter quickly managed to lure the female bird of the two [into his net].

He saw there a pair of kulinga birds foraging and as the hunter allured the female bird was it killed by surprise. (Vedabase)

 

Text 52

Oh queens, the male seeing how the female bird, in the grip of time, was caught in the ropes of the net, very upset did not know what to do next so that the poor thing began to wail emotionally about its mate:

O queens, the male seeing how the female bird caught in the ropes of the net was seized, was very aggrieved and not knowing what to do began the poor thing out of affection to lament for its mate: (Vedabase)

 

Text 53

'Alas how cruel is the mighty Lord for my wife who was so kind to me! What can I do for the poor one crying for me, her poor husband?

'Alas how cruel providence is, the Almighty of Mercy, to my wife; how awkward, what else can I do but lament over the poor one? (Vedabase)

 

Text 54

Let the Lord also take my life. What is the use of living my single body half? What kind of miserable existence is it to suffer that pain for a lifetime?

As He likes He may take me too, what, for God, is the use of the half of my body really, what a poor life it is to suffer that pain for a lifetime! (Vedabase)

 

Text 55

How unfortunate are my babies waiting for their mother in their nest. How can I, without the mother, maintain the young that cannot fly yet?'

And so, o ignorant ones, is it with you not facing the finality of your existence; lamenting over your husband won't bring him back, not even in a hundred years.' (Vedabase)

 

Text 56

While the bird thus with wet eyes most sad at a distance lamented over the loss of his beloved, the bird-catcher, as a messenger of time, managed to sneak up on him and take his life by piercing him with an arrow.

With the bird with wet eyes thus very sad lamenting at a distance over the loss of his beloved, managed the relentless hunter to sneak upon him and take him down by piercing him with an arrow. (Vedabase)

 

Text 57

And so it is with you, oh ignorant ladies. You do not see the finality of your existence! Lamenting over your husband will not bring him back, not even in a hundred years.'

And so, o ignorant ones, is it with you not facing the finality of your existence; lamenting over your husband won't bring him back, not even in a hundred years.' (Vedabase)

 

Text 58

S'rī Hiranyakas'ipu said: 'The boy thus having spoken, astounded the hearts of all the relatives. They understood that everything material was just a temporary, imperfect appearance [see also B.G. 2: 18].

S'rī Hiranyakas'ipu said: 'The boy thus expounding philosophically astounded the hearts of all the relatives and they thought everything that the eye could meet was just temporary [see also B.G. 2: 18]. (Vedabase)

 

Text 59

After Yamarāja in this form had given instruction he disappeared. Thereupon the relatives of King Suyajńa performed the duties for the funeral.

Yamarāja in this form having given instruction then disappeared, whereupon the relatives of King Suyajńa did what needed to be done for the funeral. (Vedabase)

 

Text 60

Therefore do not lament about yourself or anyone else. In this material world one only lacking in knowledge is obsessed with the meaning of this 'mine' and thine' of one's self-interest and the interest of others. For who is that actually, that soul of you and of the others?'

So what would there for you be to lament about? Whether it belongs to you or to someone else, whether it concerns yourself or someone else, in this material world is the idea one has of oneself and of others the result of being preoccupied with the body in combination with a lack of knowledge about that what is embodied.' (Vedabase)


Text 61

S'rī Nārada said: 'Diti and her daughter-in-law [Rushābhānu,] hearing the speech of the king of the Daityas promptly gave up their grief over their son and husband and submitted their minds to the true knowledge of life.'

S'rī Nārada said: 'Diti and [Rushābhānu,] the wife of the deceased brother, hearing the speech of the king of the Daityas promptly gave up their great bereavement and engaged their hearts in the real philosophy of life.' (Vedabase)

 

 

 

 

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